The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden counts on federal funds to grow cat, polar bear and rhino populations country-wide. The ...

Past research has shown that how long polar bear mothers remain at their dens impacts cubs' odds of survival. Yet why they stick around for so long and what they're doing remains poorly understood ...

A female polar bear swam 687 km across the freezing Beaufort Sea over nine days, a feat first reported in 2011. The video ...

Pregnant polar bear females usually enter the den in late autumn and remain there throughout the winter. They don't eat ...

Scientists have now quantified how much climate change has drastically reduced the number of polar bears living in Canada's Hudson Bay, the most studied group of polar bears in the world.

Haley the polar bear is making her debut at the Detroit Zoo in Royal Oak ... who were found stranded off the California coast ...

Polar bear cubs have been filmed emerging from their dens for the first time. The extremely rare footage was captured by remote cameras deployed in the Arctic mountains for nearly a decade.

Like humans, some protective mothers in the animal kingdom, such as Orangutan, Polar Bear, and African Elephant, serve ...

SAN DIEGO — The work of the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance goes far beyond what we see here at home. In fact, they are gaining critical knowledge daily all around the world, including in the ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - An unbearable goodbye. The Memphis Zoo announced on Tuesday the departure of Haley the polar bear, who left the facility over the weekend for her new home at the Detroit ...

“Haley is such a special and inquisitive bear,” said Mike Murray, VP of life sciences for the Detroit Zoological Society. “We ...